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This is April 2, which means April Fool's is over and we can put the whole thing behind us until 2027. Except, well, this was just now brought to my attention, and I must insist you bear witness to it. Because this is The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical.
"Experience Warhammer like you've never heard it before," the YouTube page states, and boy, it is not kidding. Seeing fully decked-out space marines and battle sisters belt out timeless hits like Suffer Not the Alien To Live, My Collection, and There Is Only the Emperor—"the ballad of the Dark Millennium"—is a stirring sight by any measure.
"Witness the spectacle of galactic cataclysm as it's never been seen before!" the announcer exclaims, and yeah, I think that's a fair statement. I've certainly never seen anything like this.
My first thought, sadly, was to wonder whether this was put together with generative AI, but fortunately that doesn't appear to be the case: A couple people in the comments say they recognize the players, including the battle sister and the necron—Trazyn the Infinite, apparently—from cons. So that's good to hear.
The thought that immediately followed was, briefly, tougher to answer: Is this real? The answer, it seems, is no—but also, well, maybe?
The link for ticket information leads to a video on the making of the musical, and as good as the trailer is, this is where the magic really happens because it's played completely straight as a behind-the-scenes look at a real musical production, including rehearsal footage and commentary from the producers, Adam and Eddie. (You'll probably need a VPN to see the video—when I tried to access it from Canada, I landed on a blank warhammertv.com page, and could proceed no further.)
"I think there's some parts of Warhammer 40,000 that can only be expressed through music," Eddie says at one point in the video.
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This is April 2, which means April Fool's is over and we can put the whole thing behind us until 2027. Except, well, this was just now brought to my attention, and I must insist you bear witness to it. Because this is The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical.
"Experience Warhammer like you've never heard it before," the YouTube page states, and boy, it is not kidding. Seeing fully decked-out space marines and battle sisters belt out timeless hits like Suffer Not the Alien To Live, My Collection, and There Is Only the Emperor—"the ballad of the Dark Millennium"—is a stirring sight by any measure.
"Witness the spectacle of galactic cataclysm as it's never been seen before!" the announcer exclaims, and yeah, I think that's a fair statement. I've certainly never seen anything like this.
My first thought, sadly, was to wonder whether this was put together with generative AI, but fortunately that doesn't appear to be the case: A couple people in the comments say they recognize the players, including the battle sister and the necron—Trazyn the Infinite, apparently—from cons. So that's good to hear.
The thought that immediately followed was, briefly, tougher to answer: Is this real? The answer, it seems, is no—but also, well, maybe?
The link for ticket information leads to a video on the making of the musical, and as good as the trailer is, this is where the magic really happens because it's played completely straight as a behind-the-scenes look at a real musical production, including rehearsal footage and commentary from the producers, Adam and Eddie. (You'll probably need a VPN to see the video—when I tried to access it from Canada, I landed on a blank warhammertv.com page, and could proceed no further.)
"I think there's some parts of Warhammer 40,000 that can only be expressed through music," Eddie says at one point in the video.
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